Horseshoe Bend Bridge
Horseshoe Bend Bridge at Millers Flat, Otago, New Zealand was erected in 1913 and was the first permanent bridge over the inland section of the Clutha River. While its useful life has long past it serves as a reminder of the earlier farming and goldfields' days. Along the river from the bridge is the site of the Lonely Graves, which commemorate a local legend, which says that in 1865 William Rigney found the drowned body of an unidentified young man and when the body went unclaimed he buried it with a wooden headboard marked "Somebody's Darling Lies Buried Here". While appealing, the story is not entirely true. Rigney did not find or bury the body, which was that of Charles Alms, a Nevis Valley butcher and/or farm hand, but he did erect the headboard. On his death in 1912 Rigney was buried next to Alms and his headstone reads "William Rigney, the man who buried Somebody's Darling".
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